Keeping pipe from freezing?

[BullheadPond]

Hello,
I live in Northeast Wisconsin. I have a sand point driven 17f tdown. It is in a small pump house building that is not heated.
I will be building a big insulated box around the pump and using light bulbs or a heat lamp to keep the pump from freezing
My question is.
How do you keep the pipe coming up from the ground from freezing? Pipe is straight up & down nothing horizontal except for the 2ft where it goes into the shallow well pump.
Can I tape a heat cable to the pipe about 3 ft down and put that black foam pipe insulation over the pipe and heat cable in the ground?

How does everyone else keep their pipe from freezing in the ground.

Thank you

 

[Valveman]

Using a pitless adapter and keeping all the pipes below the frost line is the best way. Hard to do with a sand point though. Electric heat is fine until the electricity goes out. Heat lamps catch things on fire. Use an oil filled portable heater with a thermostat on it. They don't get hot enough to start a fire. Put the insulated box over the sand point as well.

 

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[Reach4]

I will be building a big insulated box around the pump and using light bulbs or a heat lamp to keep the pump from freezing

The pump house is a big box. Why not insulate that? I would avoid light bulbs as heat sources, since they burn out more than heaters.

How do you keep the pipe coming up from the ground from freezing? Pipe is straight up & down nothing horizontal except for the 2ft where it goes into the shallow well pump.

That is inside the pump house, right? If you wanted to use insulation around the pipe, the insulation would have to extend down to the frost line, or you would need to extend the insulation outward so that the heat path to/from the pipe is long.

 

[Banjo Bud]

Seems to me if you insulate the pump house and heat it in whatever way, that as long as you use water everyday you’d be fine. Even at Wisconsin winter temps.

 

[BullheadPond]

Thank you all for the info . Actually have oil filled heater . I think i will use that instead of the heat lamp,